patch "mei: don't update offset in write" added to char-misc-testing

patch "mei: don't update offset in write" added to char-misc-testing

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mei: don't update offset in write

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon,
after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


>From a103af1b64d74853a5e08ca6c86aeb0e5c6ca4f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:21:44 +0300
Subject: mei: don't update offset in write

MEI enables writes of complete messages only
while read can be performed in parts, hence
write should not update the file offset to
not break interleaving partial reads with writes.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index f690918f7817..302ba7a63bd2 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -312,7 +312,6 @@ static ssize_t mei_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
 		}
 	}
 
-	*offset = 0;
 	cb = mei_cl_alloc_cb(cl, length, MEI_FOP_WRITE, file);
 	if (!cb) {
 		rets = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.18.0